Replying to Should I get an Alta pass or a Brighton pass?

As some background, I am a freshman at University of Utah in Salt Lake, and a big reason I came here was to ski. I don't have a car down here, and I don't know many other skiers. I was gonna get an Alta pass because a couple ski homies moved down here right around the time that I did, and throughout the time we've skied together we've always been the most stoked about vids coming out of Alta, whether that's the freeride SLVSH games, the Soup crew, or random vids from the guy who runs the drinkbutter insta page. Recently, my friends who moved down here had a falling out, and the ones I'm still on good terms with are moving out of Salt Lake. Bottom line, I'm having to reevaluate where and what I want to ski.

Alta is sick as fuck, and doing wildcat laps was honestly a factor in choosing to come to Utah. The issue is that I hardly know anyone that is gonna be skiing Alta, so I would be having to worry about finding some people to ski with. Also, since I don't have a car, I would have to bum a ride off of someone, which again I don't know anyone that skis Alta, or figure out how to get from campus to Alta on busses, which I've heard is pretty hard and long.

Most the people I know who ski are getting Brighton passes, I would definitely be able to get a ride up there, and if not, there is a bus that goes from campus to Brighton. I'm more into doing hotlaps on resort lines than park, but for spring slush days the brighton park would be cool to hit. Bottom line, I think I would still rather ski Alta than Brighton.

I don't really have the cash from an Ikon pass or anything more than just a base pass at one of the resorts, so I'm trying to decide between these two options. I made this longer than it needed to be but any advice would be appriciated.